Game board.



UNITED STg/iTns` PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD B. GAYLOR, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEX/V YORK.-

GAM E-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 715,474, dated December9, 1902.

Application filed May 18. 1901. Serial No. 60,865. (No model.) l

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citizen of the United States, and a resident of No. 6 Rich avenue, MountVernon, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, haveinvented a new Gaine-Board, ofy which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which shows a plan viewof the board or tablet upon which and by the aid of which the game isplayed.

The invention relates to a game-board A, divided into a number ofsquares B. On this board may be played a game in which are used a numberof pieces or men C, which are moved in antagonism to each other. Themovements of the pieces are governed by the throw of the dice in amanner hereinafter described, each playerthrowing the dice in turn.

The game-board, which may be a folding one,

lows: Two outside rows on opposite sides ofv the board or tablet, eachcomposed of thirteen squares, are green', and the remaining fifteen areplaced uniformly over the board so that two white squares intervene, asshown inthe drawing. The pieces 0r men usedA are twenty-six in numberand of two different colors, so as to distinguish them. At the beginningof the game they are placed at the two opposite sides of the board uponthe above-stated outside rows of green squares', and the object of thegame is to move them in accordance with the throws of the dice,supplemented by the skill of the player, into the opponents row. hispieces across the board into his opponents row wins the game. f

The following are the rules which govern the game:

First. The gaine is played by two persons, each having two dice andthirteen men in the outside row nearest the player. These outside greenrows are called the home rows. The object of the game is to move thepieces or nien to the opposite side of the board into The player whofirst gets all.

the opponents home row. The person first getting all his men into hisopponents home row wins the game. The separate green squares in thecentral field of the board are called safety-squares.

Second. A piece may be moved forward or to the right or left as manysquares as there are pips on the dice thrown.

Third. A piece cannot be movedboth to the right and left in the samemove; but it can be moved right or left and forward; but no piece canpass over another.

Fourth. Each die entitles the player to a distinct move-that is, a piecem ust be moved the exact number of squares to correspond with the pipsturned up on a single die or with the sumV of the pips on both dice.

Fifth. An opponents piece may be captured when any distinct move may bemade to terminate on the square upon which it stands, excepting when itstands on a safetysquare or has crossed to the opponents home row.

Sixth. After a piece is captured it is removed from the board and mustbe rentered again on the home row of the loser upon his next throw,provided there is a vacant square in his home row to receive it.

Seventh. In order to enter a piece, the sum of the throw must be iive orover. lf less than ve is thrown, no play can be made. If over ve isthrown, the piece may be entered and the balance of the throw used as adistinct move. y

Eighth. If there is no vacant square in the losers home row, the throwmustl be played to move pieces from that row in order to open a spacefor the piece that has been captured, and no other move can be madeuntil all the captured pieces are rentered.

Ninth. A piece is not secure from capture in its own home orl startingrow. It is safe only on a safety-square or in the opponents home row.

Tenth. A player is required to make all moves as indicated by the pipson the dice until one piece only remains out of the opponents home row.

Eleventh. In playing the last piece into the opponents home row it isnot required to throw for the exact number. Any throw that will carrythe piece to the required spot will IOO fifteen squares beingdistributed at equal distances from each other upon the spaceintervening between said opposing rows; and twenty-six pieces or mendivided into two distinct sets, each thirteen in number, for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specication in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEONARD B. GAYLOR.

Vitnesses:

EDGAR R. MEAD, WILLIAM Fox.

